In an attempt to manage the household budget a little better 
Great idea right, we could see where we were spending on meals and see where we could cut down some costs by either switching out certain products or making elements ourselves.
Today I bought most of the things for a weeks worth of meals so what better day to start than with tonight's meal.
Now some meals we don't use the entirety of the ingredients, so I'll weigh them to cost out exactly what we use from them.
This was where thing started to go a little wrong, my digital kitchen scales (that I have probably had for at least 8 years) decided to start acting funny.
Time to change the batteries.
They still aren't playing right, it got to the point where even turning them off and on again wasn't doing anything I had a set of scales that was rapidly loosing a gram a second.
Time for some new kitchen scales.
Starting to think that manual scales may be better these prima retro scales hit the cheap and cheerful mark at around £10.
I do like the look of this dexham one more, although it's double the price the display looks easier to read and is has a larger weighing capacity.
As I was scrolling through different scales I did find this interesting one from Morphy Richards, a much more well known brand and although these are digital the design of these jug style scales did catch my attention.
Armed with some possible ideas I'll probably have a look around tomorrow to see some different ones in person and decide which would be the best option.
I did manage to weigh my rice in the end. Counting the missing grams as I placed the rice on the scales and adding them back on again.
I cross referenced this figure with the recommended average portion size just to make sure my figure wasn't wildly inaccurate and it seemed pretty spot on so I'm happy to go with that. However I won't be weighing anything else on those scales.
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